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by Lucy Inglis


  Royal Society 125

  Rush, Benjamin 152–3

  Inquiry 152

  Russell & Co. 192

  Russell, James 230

  Russia 303, 304

  and Afghanistan 308

  heroin addiction 321

  see also Soviet Union

  Rynd, Francis 210–11

  Sabiani, Simon 267

  Safavids 115, 117–18, 144

  court of 117

  opium use 117–18

  St John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector

  Letters from an American Farmer 151

  St Mary’s Hospital (London) 233

  Salerno medical school 51–4

  Salerno Regimen of Health 54

  Salvarsan 278–9

  Samarkand 38

  San Francisco Chinatown 219–20

  Sassanids 32–3, 34–6

  scarification 12, 22

  Scuola Medica Salernitana (Salerno) 51–4

  sea exploration, early 72–5

  Second Carnatic War 169

  Second Opium War 196–9

  Second World War 273, 282–9, 332

  American casualties 292

  and field medic 282–3, 287

  medical supplies 283

  medical testing on concentration camp inmates 287–9

  pain relief 285–6

  use of amphetamines/methamphetamines by soldiers 284, 285

  Séguin, Armand 161

  Selkirk, Alexander 133

  Seneca the Younger 30

  Sertürner, Friederich Wilhelm 160–2, 209

  Seven Years War 168

  Shakespeare, William

  Othello 122

  Shanghai 263–7

  Shanghai Convention (1909) 252

  Shilts, Randy 347

  shipbuilding 71–2

  Sicilian Mafia 270–1, 273

  Sicily 270

  citrus market 271

  and Operation Husky (1943) 274

  Siculus, Diodorus 17, 45

  signatures 134

  Siku quanshu 96–7

  Silk Road (Internet) 370

  Silk Roads 20, 26–9, 30–1, 33, 34, 39, 61, 71

  silk trade 29–31, 33

  Sinaloa (Mexico) 256–60

  slavery/slave trade 73, 92

  Smith, Edwin 15

  Snyder, Solomon 343, 344

  Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) 139

  Society for the Reformation of Manners 98, 139

  Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety 238

  Sogdians 33, 34

  somniferous sponge 52–3, 63–4

  South Africa 328

  Southern Route 326–8

  Southey, Robert 157

  Soviet Union

  and Afghanistan 310, 311

  collapse of (1991) 321

  invasion of Afghanistan 313–15

  withdrawal from Afghanistan 315–16

  Spain 5–6, 368, 9293

  East Indies and Chinese trade 80, 92–3

  rule of in Philippines 246–7, 249

  sea exploration 74–5

  slave trade 92

  and tobacco 93

  trade deals with England 88

  war with America (1898) 145

  Spice Islands 78–9, 86

  spice trade 26, 31–2

  spices, opium classed as 77

  Spirito, Francois 267, 268

  Sudak 55

  sugar 168

  suicide

  opium and female 173

  Suleiman the Magnificent 116

  Sulphanilamide 283

  Sumerians 10

  supercargoes 108

  Swearengen, Al 225–6, 227, 228

  Sydenham, Thomas 122, 124, 125–9, 133

  syrette 285–6

  Taiping Rebellion 198

  Taiwan 106

  Taliban 318–21, 322, 326

  Tang dynasty 38

  Taraki, Nur Mohammad 312

  tatula 117

  tea trade 164, 165, 166–7, 181

  tea/tea-drinking 88–92, 164

  British consumption and demand for 164–5

  and Chinese culture 88–9, 90–1

  medicinal properties 89–90

  ritual of taking 167

  smuggling of 165

  Tell Abu Hureyra (Syria) 4

  temperance movement 236

  Thailand 291, 296

  Akha people 349

  and heroin 358

  Royal Project 348

  Theophrastus 18–19

  theriac 24, 61–2, 94, 127

  Thomas, Gaillard 229

  Thompson, Hunter S. 341

  Thomson, Samuel 205–6

  Thomsonian Medicine 205, 206

  Tientsin, Treaties of 197, 198

  tobacco 92–4

  mixture of opium and (madak) 95, 96, 97

  Trainspotting (film) 366

  Transoxonia 38

  Triads 264–5, 359, 376

  and Canton 183

  domination of global heroin trafficking 360

  and Hong Kong 351, 354, 355

  turf war in 1970s 359

  trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) 128

  Trotter, Thomas

  An Essay 153–4

  Trotula 52

  Truck Act (1887) 239

  Turkey 261–3

  heroin and morphine production 262–3

  opium production 144, 262–3

  see also Ottoman Empire

  Twain, Mark

  Roughing It 220–1

  Uganda, drug trade 327–8

  Ulbricht, Ross William 370

  Umayyads 37–8

  Únětice culture 11

  United Kingdom Alliance 236

  United States see America

  Urban II, Pope 46–7

  Utley, Dr Vine 204

  Uyghur people 33

  Venice 76

  guild system 55

  Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie see VOC

  Victoria, Queen 190

  Viet Cong 294–5

  Vietnam War 294–300

  drug addiction amongst soldiers 295, 296

  My Lai Massacre (1968) 296–7

  Vikings 46

  VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) 85–6, 87, 96, 108, 109

  Volstead Act 255–6, 259

  Voltaire 144

  von Niemeyer, Felix 213

  Wahhabism 317–18, 326

  Walpole, Horace 171

  Webb v. United States (1919) 339

  Weddell, Captain 99–103

  Wedgwood, Tom 155, 157

  Wellesley, Lord 176

  Whiffens 331

  Whitear, Rachel 363–5

  Whitman, Walt 215

  William of Tyre 49

  History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea 49

  Wilsford Shaft (Wiltshire) 8–9

  Wing Tsue 226

  women

  and opium addiction 229

  role of in War on Drugs 362–5

  suicide and opium 173

  Wong, Kay 359

  Wong, Shing May 359–60, 362

  Wood, Alexander 210–11

  working class 136, 137

  and addiction 237–8

  and gin intoxication 136–8

  Wren, Christopher 124–5, 210

  Wright, Hamilton 252, 253

  Wu, Emperor 28, 29

  Yao Lu 95

  Lushu 94

  Ye Mingchen 196, 199

  Yongzheng Edict (1729) 98

  Young, George 146–7

  Young Turks 261

  Zahir Shah, Mohammad 309–10, 311

  Zhang Qian 29

  Zheng Chenggong 104, 105

  Zheng He 73

  ALSO BY LUCY INGLIS

  Georgian London

  MILK OF PARADISE

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  Copyright © 2019 by Lucy Inglis

  First Pegasus Books cloth edition February
2019

  Illustrations by Hemesh Alles

  Map artwork by ML Design

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